Wednesday, March 29, 2017

The trial that no one covered. The mass murderer in Philadelphia who was only found guilty of 7 murders, because to charge him with more would up the murder rate in Philadelphia to embarrassing levels.

The book is now out and the movie will soon be released. I am guessing that it won't get much more coverage than the trial did.

Masood’s victims were certainly diverse. The men and women he ran over or pushed off Westminster Bridge included Brits, Americans, Romanians, Greeks, Chinese, South Koreans, Italians, Irish, Portuguese, Polish and French. That is the new form that diversity takes in the more multicultural cities.

Thursday, March 2, 2017

Jews in Europe have been advised not to wear any outward signs of their Jewish heritage in order to keep safe. This means taking off the kippah or yamulke, a distinctive hat that orthodox Jewish men wear; girls are advised not to wear the Star of David around their necks.

It is a dramatic phenomenon: first, the kippah disappears in the streets, then the Jews themselves flee these societies. 40,0000 Jews have left France in the last fifteen years, one-tenth of the whole French population. In the tolerant, liberal and democratic West, where Muslim minorities have become more and more assertive, Jews have become more and more “invisible.”

Even in Finland, where a small but historic Jewish community has always lived in peace, the Jewish community has issued a directive asking its members not to wear the kippah in public. In Malmö, Sweden, the situation is even more dramatic: the Jews there live like Christians in Mosul.